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Unions Call Out Biden on Gaza: United Electrical and UAW Speak
The death toll in Gaza continues to climb, with conservative estimates putting the numbers of dead around 40,000, but a recent report in the British medical journal The Lancet estimates the actual...
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Border Abolition, Against All Odds
Contra Viento y Marea is a community kitchen in the Zona Norte of Tijuana that serves over 1,000 hot meals every week. The group was founded six years ago, and is made up of Central American migrant...
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“Genocide Will Continue”: Fury Grows as Harris Vows to Keep Biden’s Gaza Policy
Vice President Kamala Harris has sparked fury after saying that she would not break from President Joe Biden’s policies toward Israel and its U.S.-sponsored genocide of Palestinians in Gaza if she were...
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Women Who Search for the Disappeared Are Changing What It Means to Be a Victim
There is a small bird in Colombia that’s famous for fighting off large hawks to protect its young: the sirirí. This is the origin of the name of “Operation Sirirí,” which is what Fabiola Lalinde...
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US Press Loses Interest as Winners of French Election Aren’t Allowed to Take...
One of the US’s oldest and closest allies is currently undergoing a constitutional crisis. Its government is in disarray, led by a head of state whose party has been rejected by voters, and who refuses...
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Israel’s Violent Invasion of West Bank Parallels the Early Stages of War on...
Israel is in the midst of its largest scale assault of the occupied West Bank since 2002. Beginning in the predawn hours on Wednesday, hundreds of Israeli forces in columns of armored vehicles and...
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Work To Rule and Open Bargaining Back Down Kroger Warehouse Bosses
Teamsters in an Indiana grocery warehouse scored big this year with a contract campaign like never before. They organized in five languages and sported a multilingual union button. They opened up...
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Middle East Studies Association, Committee on Academic Freedom: Letter to New...
Linda G. MillsPresident, New York Universitylinda.mills@nyu.edu Georgina DopicoProvost, New York Universitygeorgina.dopico@nyu.edu Martin DorphExecutive Vice President, New York Universitymd121@nyu.edu...
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College Administrators Spent Summer Break Dreaming Up Ways to Squash Gaza...
As students and faculty in the U.S. return to campuses for the fall semester, there are innumerable reasons to continue demonstrating against institutional complicity with Israel’s genocidal war on...
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Starmer’s Purges of Labour Have Mutated into the Arrest of Palestine Supporters
The arrest yesterday of Palestine solidarity activist Sarah Wilkinson, following the arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst last week – both based on an improbable claim they have violated Section 12 of...
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Labor Militancy Is the Only Way to Increase Union Membership
With Labor Day 2024 upon us, it is important to critically reflect on the current state of the U.S. labor movement and the challenges that it faces in an environment where Big Business dominates the...
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Hanging On with Gaza
During a week of action focused on UN potential to end Israel’s genocidal attacks, I was part of a coalition that met with twelve different permanent missions to the United Nations. We urged that if...
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Debunking Myths: The Real Iran Beyond U.S. and Israeli Narratives
Please tell Americans, that Iranians are kind and hospitable. Come and visit us. You are most welcome here.” This was a common refrain encountered in a recent trip to Iran. At present the US military...
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Beware the Republican Plot to Steal the 2024 Election
The “Party of Lincoln,” as Republicans call themselves, seems intent on undermining just about everything President Abraham Lincoln lived and died for. This includes Republican efforts to upend the way...
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U.S. Labor’s Self-Destructive International Crusade Against “Red” Unions
After unions won historic gains for working people in the strike wave that followed the end of World War II, corporations like General Electric and Westinghouse sought to weaken the labor movement. By...
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Venezuela’s Presidential Elections: Attempted Coup or Fraud? An Interview...
Writer, activist, sociologist and director of the Centre for Studies for Socialist Democracy Reinaldo Antonio Iturriza López discusses the competing — and inadequate — narratives surrounding...
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Who Is Kamala Harris? Aggressive Foreign and Military Policies
It wasn’t until the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention that pandering to military power took the stage. Until then, conventioneers were insulated from possible second thoughts they...
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The End of Western Pluralist Democracy
No major western leader is ever again going to be able to speak about human rights or ethical values, without attracting howls of derision. They are turning on their own people in order to prevent...
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A Labor Day Question: What Makes a Decent Society?
Someone once asked labor leader Samuel Gompers, “What does labor want?” His response is often misquoted, limited to one word: “More.” By doing so, that one-word answer makes the labor movement seem...
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Dirty Deleting, a Lack of Accountability, and Next Steps
Perhaps you’ve heard the term “teachable moment” in recent years. It is a way of framing or reframing a mistake or misfortune into a learning opportunity or chance for growth. I have had “teachable...
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